CEO Manufacturing Business - Urgent Hire

Experienced seasoned leader with Engineering/Manufacturing/Sales background urgently needed

If you are a person with a strong commercial track record in business and like the idea of bringing your leadership skills to bear, and are open to equity participation, then this opportunity might be worth considering.

The successful candidates will:

• Have a strong commercial track record in business leadership with a minimum of 10-15 years in engineering and/or manufacturing.
• Be innately constructive, positive, and professional, having a high EQ as well as high IQ, you will also be able to point to some turnaround and troubleshooting experience.
• Be open to equity participation (personal investment) and you will wish to see an opportunity for significant return on your equity through adding value during a 1-5 year time horizon.
• Have a robust risk tolerance.
• Be a proven self-starter and really enjoy business, sales and deal-doing.
• Be financially literate.

About the Company

This is in a well-established engineering/manufacturing business with a high technical bias that now needs a shift in culture toward sales and growth to properly exploit its significant capability.

Working with the board and the majority owner you will set out a turnaround plan and then lead the execution of that plan, exploiting the immediate and mid-term opportunities. 

About You

You will have already had a significant career either running your own company or working in several senior commercial management, operational and/or sales roles. You are now at a stage where you are seeking a genuine opportunity to bring your skills and experience to a situation that provides the right “fit” and a genuine “alignment”.

You are keen to bring your considerable financial literacy and acumen to bear, along with your innate commercial savvy and superb people skills. You also require a high degree of autonomy and very little supervision, happy to report monthly to the board.

You can confidently communicate with senior executives, other leaders and staff with gravitas and authority. You rapidly build trust and credibility, navigating objections with empathy, providing compelling, persuasive leadership in how to create sustainable value.

Opportunity:

This immediate opportunity is in the Manufacturing and Engineering space and is based in Western Sydney, is full time and will require an early start. The opportunity provides significant future up-side and the opportunity to scale, and operates in an attractive high gross margin environment.

To register your interest:

Please apply to this advert through SEEK only.

Due to the number of applications, please allow some time for us to revert.  We will review all candidates. However, only those individuals who have matched the background and experience will be contacted. Candidates in due course will be asked to demonstrate they are sophisticated investors.